Questions for the list

[kellifer]

2 things that I have been wondering about... considering I'm never particularly up with the online etiquette and value opinions...

1. For the writers - do you post stories to multiple communities? I usually pick one and my journal or just my journal and that's it but I'm seriously considering cutting back the number of communities I'm a member of because it seems lately I'm scrolling through five or six entries of the same story over and over again... I have a non-community filter but I *like* finding new authors to read but this is just defeating me...

2. Why do people put for their story summaries like - "I would summarise but it will spoil the story" *or* "I suck at summaries. Just read." I'm paraphrasing... ;) I put an excerpt because that's what I like to see, but sometime it's like, help me out and give me an idea of what your story is. Otherwise, I just skip right over it.

What's people's preferred method?

Comments

[poisontaster]

1) I used to spam every relevant community that I belonged to, but it felt annoying for me and everyone who had to show up on their flist. So now I usually post fic on my LJ and put a link in no more than 2-3 relevant communities, usually the largest ones for that fandom.

2) Because people are programmed to think they HAVE to put a summary and are both lazy and unimaginative? A lot of times I don't put a SUMMARY per se; I'll take a line from the fic and make it my LJ cut text, or when I post the link on the community, I'll pull a couple sentences from the fic itself to act as a teaser. I think summaries are largely a waste of time.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I'll pull a couple sentences from the fic itself to act as a teaser.

That's definitely what I prefer to see so I do the same.